Mark 16:19

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Summary

Mark 16:19

So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.

After

He was

And sat

General references

John 6:62

Acts 19:11

2 Corinthians 13:8

Bible References

After

Then Jesus came up to them, and said, "Full authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Then He said to them, "This is what I told you while I was still with you, that everything which is written about me in the law of Moses, in the prophets, and in the Psalms, had to be fulfilled."

After they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, are you more devoted to me than you are to these things?" Peter answered Him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I tenderly love you." Jesus said to him, "Then feed my lambs."

up to the day when through the Holy Spirit He gave the apostles whom He had chosen their orders, and then was taken up to heaven.

He was

Now as the time was coming to a head when He should be taken up to heaven, He firmly set His face to continue His journey to Jerusalem;

Then He led them out as far as Bethany, and lifted up His hands and blessed them.

Before the Passover feast started, Jesus knew that His time had come for Him to leave the world and go to the Father, and as He had loved His own in the world He loved them to the last.

I did come from the Father and I have come into the world. Now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father."

I have glorified you down here upon the earth by completing the work which you have given me to do.

And while they were gazing after Him into heaven, two men dressed in white suddenly stood beside them,

So He has been exalted to God's right hand and has received from His Father, as promised, and poured out upon us the Holy Spirit, as you see and hear.

Yet heaven must retain Him till the time for the universal restoration of which God in the early ages spoke through the lips of His holy prophets.

when He raised Christ from the dead, and seated Him at His right hand in heaven,

Concerning this the Scripture says: "He led a host of captives, when He went up on high, and granted gifts to men."

He is the reflection of God's glory and the perfect representation of His being, and continues to uphold the universe by His mighty word. After He had procured man's purification from sins, He took His seat at the right hand of God's majesty,

Since then we have in Jesus, the Son of God, a great High Priest who has gone right up to heaven itself, let us continue to keep a firm hold on our profession of faith in Him.

(6:19) where Jesus has blazed the way for us and became a High Priest with the rank of Melchizedek.

For we needed such a High Priest, holy, innocent, unstained, far removed from sinful men, and elevated far above the very heavens,

Now the main point in what I am saying is this: We have such a High Priest as this, one who has taken His seat at the right hand of God's majestic throne in heaven

For it was not a sanctuary made by human hands, a mere copy of the true one, that Christ entered, but it was into heaven itself that He went, in order now to appear for us in the very presence of God.

But this One offered up once for all and for all time one sacrifice for sins, and once for all took His seat at God's right hand,

keeping our eyes on Jesus, the perfect leader and example of faith, who, instead of the joy which lay before Him, endured the cross with no regard for its shame, and since has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

who has gone to heaven and is now at God's right hand, with angels, heavenly authorities and powers made subject to Him.

I will give to him who conquers the privilege of taking his seat with me on my throne, just as I have conquered and taken my seat with my Father on His throne.

And sat

But since he was full of the Holy Spirit, he looked right into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at God's right hand.

After that comes the end, when He will turn the kingdom over to God His Father, when He will put an end to all other government, authority, and power;

who has gone to heaven and is now at God's right hand, with angels, heavenly authorities and powers made subject to Him.

I am now standing at the door and knocking. If anyone listens to my voice and opens the door, I will be his guest and feast with him, and he with me.

General references

Suppose you were to see the Son of Man going back where He was before?

God also continued to do such wonder-works through Paul

For I cannot do anything against the truth, but only for it.